“Organizing for Economic Democracy”

Event Date: 

Friday, January 31, 2014 - 1:00pm

Event Location: 

  • Student Resource Building
  • Multipurpose Room

A symposium on major initiatives of the grassroots War on Poverty and their enduring legacy for economic justice organizing today. This sympoisum brought together academics and activists to discuss the ways the past can inform our actions and organizing in the present. 

Community Action:

  • Annelise Orleck, Professor of History, Dartmouth College
  • Pete White, Founder and Co-Director, Los Angeles Community Action Network

Workplace Justice:

  • Sophia Lee, Professor of Law and History, University of Pennsylvania Law School
  • Steven Pitts, Associate Chair, UC-Berkeley Labor Center

Federally Funded Legal Services:

  • Clare Pastore, Professor of Law, USC Gould Law School
  • Jose Padilla, Executive Director, California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc.
Annelise Orleck opens the symposium describing women community organizers in Las Vegas
Steven Pitts addresses the crowd on labor organizing today